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  • The effect, at least in the short term: a sea of poor and working-class neighborhoods amid islands of affluence.†   (source)
  • Treeships rarely accrued more than a four-or five-month time-debt, making short, scenic crossings where star systems were a very few light-years apart, thus allowing their affluent passengers to spend as little time as necessary in fugue.†   (source)
  • He mentioned a place—it was in a less affluent section of Memphis.†   (source)
  • The road was a sort of boundary between the affluent and the almost affluent, and to live on the lake side of the road was one of the few natural privileges in a town of the prairie-the difference between watching the sun set over cornfields or over water.†   (source)
  • Heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, and breast cancer, the principal "diseases of affluence," have been linked to diets low in fiber and high in animal fats.†   (source)
  • The schools surrounding the barrio catered to the affluent whites who lived around Sangra, so they all dropped out.†   (source)
  • It's a sleepy little street, tidy and affluent, with lots of young families; they're all having their dinner around seven o'clock, or sitting on the sofa, mum and dad with the little ones squeezed between them, watching The X Factor.†   (source)
  • Performers came because Imre offered what every artist needs most—an appreciative, affluent audience.†   (source)
  • To interview any students, Candy and I had to visit places in the more affluent communities like Bloomfield Hills and Grosse Pointe.†   (source)
  • This family, on a Saturday morning in October, began, one by one, to stir out of their dreams of affluence and vengeance into the anonymous misery of their storefront.†   (source)
  • Marin was overwhelmingly poor, all the more so in comparison to the sparkling affluence of San Francisco.†   (source)
  • Years later I discovered that the United States had been crossed thousands of times by frightened Black children traveling alone to their newly affluent parents in Northern cities, or back to grandmothers in Southern towns when the urban North reneged on its economic promises.†   (source)
  • Here I am in the middle of a very affluent university, with a lot of comfortable ideas, and I met this nun.†   (source)
  • Lately a new client group had arisen: affluent women seeking protection from former boyfriends or husbands or from stalkers.†   (source)
  • And in light of Luke's newly affluent circumstances, the bank would consider extending a line of credit for any improvements he wanted to make as well.†   (source)
  • Moody boasted that this was an affluent neighborhood on the northern side of Tehran; his sister's house was just two doors away from the Chinese Embassy. it was screened from the street by a large fence crafted of green iron bars set together closely.†   (source)
  • With its open spaces and relative affluence, it was also soccer country.†   (source)
  • Eventually it was converted into Cascia Hall, a private preparatory school for affluent human teenagers.†   (source)
  • She'd taken a risk by going for luxury, adding all kinds of fancy accoutrements like heated garages, marble bathrooms, balconies, and high-end appliances, all for the discerning, affluent professional.†   (source)
  • Each switch represents a single category of the child's data: his first-grade math score, his third-grade math score, his first-grade reading score, his third-grade reading score, his mother's education level, his father's income, the number of books in his home, the relative affluence of his neighborhood, and so on.†   (source)
  • The next day, up in the more affluent North Division, Jonas Hutchinson was numbed by the spectacle he beheld: "As far as the fire reached, the city is thronged with desperadoes who are plundering and trying to set new fires….†   (source)
  • Further evidence of the centrality of emergency obstetrics came from a study of a fundamentalist Christian church in Indiana whose members were affluent, well-educated, and well-nourished Americans, yet who for spiritual reasons eschewed doctors and hospitals.†   (source)
  • Robbers liked to frequent our area, where the more affluent lived.†   (source)
  • But for them I knew the Western world and its affluence would remain completely out of reach.†   (source)
  • That placed them in second, behind a school from a relatively affluent part of East Phoenix.†   (source)
  • They lived in Burlingame — affluent, exclusive — took rock-climbing treks in the desert at Moab.†   (source)
  • 'Take a look, Chaplain,' Colonel Cathcart directed, screwing a cigarette into his holder and seating himself affluently in the swivel chair behind his desk.†   (source)
  • Don't give that affluent, white liberal stuff," he says finally, stunned that a smug, cynical, college-boy line just passed his lips.†   (source)
  • Clapp was in the process of interviewing Lettie Lang's former employers, almost all of whom were fairly affluent white homeowners accustomed to using black domestic help.†   (source)
  • Delivery trucks used to service the neighborhood, but since the 1929 stock market crash, they only ventured into the most affluent parts of town.†   (source)
  • To many of the English, such affluence as they saw on Long Island was proof that America had indeed grown rich at the expense of Great Britain.†   (source)
  • He was a baldish, average-looking man from Mountain Brook, Alabama, an affluent Birmingham suburb where teenagers often get their driver's license and their first BMW at the same time, and lived in an apartment in his father's mansion, on an estate in the woods outside Union.†   (source)
  • The rest, children of the island's slightly more affluent, paid fifty cents a lesson.†   (source)
  • Although the Kennedy tradition is to put politics above social concerns, the two brothers raised in affluent northern liberalism have become increasingly interested in righting the wrongs of racial injustice.†   (source)
  • If he'd been born into affluence, he might've been a painter or a poet.†   (source)
  • In general, results from this effort in many cities show that those with minority dialects do not fare so well, particularly in affluent communities.†   (source)
  • Staples, a tall, lean, well-dressed man not quite thirty with whiskey-colored hair and a broad Roman nose, was a Democrat from an affluent family and an admitted abolitionist.†   (source)
  • Even the town had another name, Bedleyville (this my attribution), which was changed sometime in the early 1970s because the town board decided it wasn't affluent-sounding enough.†   (source)
  • Her first stop was the Angelini pied-' a-terre, cozied in an affluent East Side neighborhood.†   (source)
  • There I met a much more educated and affluent class, older men who brought me into the conversation.†   (source)
  • San Narciso was a name; an incident among our climatic records of dreams and what dreams became among our accumulated daylight, a moment's squall line or tornado's touchdown among the higher, more continental solemnities—storm systems of group suffering and need, prevailing winds of affluence.†   (source)
  • About his affluence he was breath-takingly direct.†   (source)
  • I had been guilty of this when my children were small in the early 196os and living the affluent life.†   (source)
  • She believed that he was going through a necessary period of struggle before achieving the moderate affluence enjoyed by most farmers.†   (source)
  • One day, Mr. Wandati came into the yard wearing a handsome pin-striped suit, one I had never seen on him before, and requested that I drive him to an affluent neighborhood of the city.†   (source)
  • He cannot be over thirty-five; he must be well connected, thinks Simon, to have risen so fast in the Methodist establishment, and to have procured such an affluent congregation.†   (source)
  • Many affluent families left Pensacola for Santa Rosa County, and military families from nearby Eglin Air Force Base settled there.†   (source)
  • Just a dumb Black kid from the poor side of Detroit who has no business trying to make it through Yale with all these intelligent, affluent students.†   (source)
  • In the era of AIDS, the affluent world would have to pay attention to the threat of a tb so difficult to treat, and to the dire but real possibility that "superbugs," strains resistant to every known antibiotic, would spread across borders—between homeless shelters and Park Avenue in New York, between poor and wealthy nations.†   (source)
  • A business-suited exodus emptied the train when we hit 110th Street, the last outpost of affluent Manhattan, and we were finally able to sit down.†   (source)
  • On one occasion Chris picked up a homeless man from the streets of B.C., brought him home to leafy, affluent Annandale, and secretly set the guy up in the Airstream trailer his parents parked beside the garage.†   (source)
  • Matters like these were traditionally settled quietly, especially when the accused was a highly respected, affluent individual with no criminal record.†   (source)
  • To help the black kids feel as if they belonged at Ole Miss, Nix often took them into the places frequented by the old white affluent Ole Miss crowd.†   (source)
  • My parents still live in Newport Beach, an affluent community full of tanned, yacht-loving, tennis-playing people named Fritz and Binky.†   (source)
  • I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.†   (source)
  • Many of these children develop criminal records for behavior that more affluent children engage in with impunity.†   (source)
  • The affluent suburb of Wayne might as well have been the Serengeti the way I imagined animals surrounding me.†   (source)
  • Innocent stuff—until Deshawn finally said one thing too many and Randy, the pride of super-affluent Scarsdale, playfully tipped the front bill of Deshawn's hat, knocking it off his head.†   (source)
  • The diversity of the borough is extraordinary: areas like the Italian-immigrant-settled Country Club neighborhood were among the most affluent of the city but were only minutes away from the poorest congressional district in the nation.†   (source)
  • Riverdale was in the Bronx but was its own little island of affluence, a fact local residents were quick to remind you of in hopes of keeping their property values from collapsing to the level of the rest of the borough.†   (source)
  • Mary is from an affluent home, which afforded her an education that few American women enjoyed at the time.†   (source)
  • Pepe Maiz thought of his mother who, though affluent, visited churches in the poorer barrios and ladled milk for mothers unable to provide it for their own children.†   (source)
  • This was an interesting example of applied stereotyping—the assumption that affluent Americans are happy to buy German cars for their prestige, status, and fine engineering, but not if they talk with a German accent!†   (source)
  • Shahir Anwar, of the Under 13 Fugees, was accepted at Paideia School, a private school in an affluent Atlanta neighborhood, on scholarship.†   (source)
  • The town in fact wasn't affluent at the time, being just a shabby tan brick train station and the few stores that served it, some older village homes, several new housing developments, and the surrounding dairy cow pastures and wooded meadows, nothing fancy at all, which was how I was able to afford to move here and open a business.†   (source)
  • We bought a spacious, beautiful home in an affluent section of Corpus Christi, the neighborhood populated by physicians, dentists, lawyers and other professionals.†   (source)
  • Part of me did not want to move away from my parents in Michigan, but a bigger part of me was ready to begin a blissful new life of affluence and social status.†   (source)
  • It was an affluent subdivision near Decatur with a series of cul-de-sacs and rolling narrow lanes that closed to traffic on Halloween each year to become a trick-or-treater's paradise.†   (source)
  • A social worker, Ruth Zweifler, familiar with the housing project the boys came from, became convinced that they were being discriminated against because of their African American English: "There were maybe twenty-four poor black children in a sea of affluent white families and they really were having a very hard time.†   (source)
  • When it was built, there was much fanfare and optimism, and I remember reading an editorial in the local paper about how important the Ebbington Center Mall would be in bringing new vitality to the area, enticing the shoppers (especially the affluent ones in Bedley Run) to stay here with their money, rather than trek down to the city.†   (source)
  • He found a world far different from his childhood, one that offered affluence, culture, and basic human dignity that surpassed anything available in Iranian society.†   (source)
  • Coming Apart A day later, on Sunday, it was the Under 15s' turn for a big away game, against a team from the Roswell Soccer Club called the Santos in an affluent suburb north of Atlanta.†   (source)
  • A few of your more affluent type members do wrap their letters around bricks, and then the whole thing in brown paper, and send them Railway Express, but I don't know …"†   (source)
  • In those days everyone from the Tidewater of my father's middle social station stayed either at the McAlpin or the Taft; the very few who were more affluent always frequented the Waldorf-Astoria.†   (source)
  • But that seemed an unlikely suspicion, after Morris Fink's observation about Nathan's singular affluence.†   (source)
  • At the same time I was totally unprepared for such affluence, the likes of which my provincial eyes had glimpsed in the pages of The New Yorker and in movies but never actually beheld.†   (source)
  • There in the golden spring dusk of Manhattan, in an ambience of culture and unassertive affluence from which I knew I would forever be excluded, a soirée would be commencing at the Winston Hunnicutts', for that was the swank name with which I had christened them.†   (source)
  • "Do not, in your affluence and plenty," you seem to say, "pass me by."†   (source)
  • He would have liked ready and unencumbered affluence—the possession of huge sums of money in the bank and in his pocket, the freedom to travel grandly, to go before the world spaciously.†   (source)
  • IT WAS peopled by letter carriers, firemen and those store owners who were affluent enough not to have to live in the rooms in back of the store.†   (source)
  • If the Democrats spoke more emphatically about the equality of man, the Whigs, even in the West, had the most imposing and affluent men.†   (source)
  • There was the known pattern of that life, gradually altered toward comfort as Gilbert's affluence was felt at that distance.†   (source)
  • I trust you will return from Australia in a position of affluence.†   (source)
  • He could not fail to notice the signs of affluence and luxury on every hand.†   (source)
  • She had been used to affluence: it was gone.†   (source)
  • A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, he halted.†   (source)
  • General Epanchin, as everyone knew, had a good deal to do with certain government monopolies; he was also a voice, and an important one, in many rich public companies of various descriptions; in fact, he enjoyed the reputation of being a well-to-do man of busy habits, many ties, and affluent means.†   (source)
  • And now Mrs. Griffiths, who leaned more to the manner and tactics of the older, if not less affluent families, stared complainingly at her daughter.†   (source)
  • Hitherto she had accepted their ideals without questioning--their kindly affluence, their inexplosive religion, their dislike of paper-bags, orange-peel, and broken bottles.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Manson Mingott had long since succeeded in untying her husband's fortune, and had lived in affluence for half a century; but memories of her early straits had made her excessively thrifty, and though, when she bought a dress or a piece of furniture, she took care that it should be of the best, she could not bring herself to spend much on the transient pleasures of the table.†   (source)
  • Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.†   (source)
  • The heavy carpets, the watchful servants, the perpetually reminding tick of disciplined clocks, the perpetually renewed stack of cards and invitations on the hall table, the whole chain of tyrannical trifles binding one hour to the next, and each member of the household to all the others, made any less systematised and affluent existence seem unreal and precarious.†   (source)
  • Would he have to go personally and ask; wait outside an office door, and, then, distinguished and affluent looking, announce that he was looking for something to do?†   (source)
  • It was, in fact, characteristic of Carry that, while she actively gleaned her own stores from the fields of affluence, her real sympathies were on the other side—with the unlucky, the unpopular, the unsuccessful, with all her hungry fellow-toilers in the shorn stubble of success.†   (source)
  • In her animal spirits there was an affluence of life and certainty of flow, such as excited my wonder, while it baffled my comprehension.†   (source)
  • For three hundred and sixty miles, gentlemen, through the entire breadth of the state of New York; through numerous populous cities and most thriving villages; through long, dismal, uninhabited swamps, and affluent, cultivated fields, unrivalled for fertility; by billiard-room and bar-room; through the holy-of-holies of great forests; on Roman arches over Indian rivers; through sun and shade; by happy hearts or broken; through all the wide contrasting scenery of those noble Mohawk…†   (source)
  • And she looked at him and at his dress as a man of affluence, and at the furniture he had provided for the room—ornate and lavish to her eyes.†   (source)
  • She was understood to be wretchedly poor, and seemed to make it her choice to remain so; inasmuch as her affluent cousin, the Judge, had repeatedly offered her all the comforts of life, either in the old mansion or his own modern residence.†   (source)
  • The former cast one admiring glance from north to south, and sank his face again beneath the folds of his coat; while the latter contemplated, with philanthropic pleasure, the prospect of affluence and comfort that was expanding around him; the result of his own enterprise, and much of it the fruits of his own industry.†   (source)
  • Of the different migratory birds that frequent forests and waters, there was the same affluence, hundreds of acres of geese and ducks being often seen at a time in the great bays that indent the shores of the lake.†   (source)
  • In a word, the hand of man had never yet defaced or deformed any part of this native scene, which lay bathed in the sunlight, a glorious picture of affluent forest grandeur, softened by the balminess of June, and relieved by the beautiful variety afforded by the presence of so broad an expanse of water.†   (source)
  • He was descended from a good family in France, where he had lived for many years in affluence, respected by his superiors and beloved by his equals.†   (source)
  • Time was necessary to blend the numerous and affluent colonists of the lower province with their new compatriots; but the thinner and more humble population above, was almost immediately swallowed in the vortex which attended the tide of instant emigration.†   (source)
  • Nor is this all: the men of whom I speak began and will end their lives in easy or in affluent circumstances; hence they have naturally conceived a taste for choice gratifications, and a love of refined and delicate pleasures.†   (source)
  • …together in a school at Exeter; and, being accustomed to go home once a week, had often heard, from their mother's lips, long accounts of their father's sufferings in his days of poverty, and of their deceased uncle's importance in his days of affluence: which recitals produced a very different impression on the two: for, while the younger, who was of a timid and retiring disposition, gleaned from thence nothing but forewarnings to shun the great world and attach himself to the quiet…†   (source)
  • Upon a youth of Ben-Hur's mind and temperament the influence of five years of affluent life in Rome can be appreciated best by recalling that the great city was then, in fact, the meeting-place of the nations—their meeting-place politically and commercially, as well as for the indulgence of pleasure without restraint.†   (source)
  • I will parody them— Blest Knight! whose dictatorial looks dispense To Children affluence, to Rushworth sense.†   (source)
  • He had a conviction that the want of most men was knowledge of a sort which brings wisdom rather than affluence.†   (source)
  • On that side the lane was open, and about two hundred paces further on, ran into a street of which it was the affluent.†   (source)
  • The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only—not from its privileged classes; and so, no matter what the nation's intellectual grade was; whether high or low, the bulk of its ability was in the long ranks of its nameless and its poor, and so it never saw the day that it had not the material in abundance whereby to govern itself.†   (source)
  • Thus, when he died, at twenty-four (the scene of his decease, Calais, and the cause, brandy), he did not leave his widow, from whom he had been separated soon after the honeymoon, in affluent circumstances.†   (source)
  • Poor men in America would often appear rich in comparison with the poor of Europe; but they may with propriety by styled poor in comparison with their more affluent countrymen.†   (source)
  • I had the happiness to know you in former times, and the Drama has ever had a claim which has ever been acknowledged, on the noble and the affluent.†   (source)
  • There are in affluence a crowd of aristocratic cares and caprices which are highly becoming to beauty.†   (source)
  • 'The daughter of a gentleman, though—ha—himself at one time comparatively far from affluent—comparatively—and herself reared in—hum—retirement, need not of necessity find this position so very novel.'†   (source)
  • The woman, nothing loth, consented, for there was some such attraction in becoming the wife of a noted hunter, among the females of the tribes, as is experienced by the sex, in more refined life, when they bestow their hands on the affluent.†   (source)
  • There was a family of cousins within a walk of Uppercross, in less affluent circumstances, who depended on the Musgroves for all their pleasures: they would come at any time, and help play at anything, or dance anywhere; and Anne, very much preferring the office of musician to a more active post, played country dances to them by the hour together; a kindness which always recommended her musical powers to the notice of Mr and Mrs Musgrove more than anything else, and often drew this…†   (source)
  • She is a cold-hearted, vain woman, who has married entirely from convenience, and though evidently unhappy in her marriage, places her disappointment not to faults of judgment, or temper, or disproportion of age, but to her being, after all, less affluent than many of her acquaintance, especially than her sister, Lady Stornaway, and is the determined supporter of everything mercenary and ambitious, provided it be only mercenary and ambitious enough.†   (source)
  • "After all the trouble that has been taken to give you a start, and when there is nothing to do but to keep straight on towards affluence, you say you will be a poor man's schoolmaster.†   (source)
  • Accustomed to ease, and unequal to the struggles incident to an infant society, the affluent emigrant was barely enabled to maintain his own rank by the weight of his personal superiority and acquirements; but, the moment that his head was laid in the grave, his indolent and comparatively uneducated offspring were compelled to yield precedency to the more active energies of a class whose exertions had been stimulated by necessity.†   (source)
  • The local importance Middleton had acquired, by his union with the daughter of so affluent a proprietor as Don Augustin, united to his personal merit, attracted the attention of the government.†   (source)
  • It profits a people but little to be affluent and free if it is perpetually exposed to be pillaged or subjugated; the number of its manufactures and the extent of its commerce are of small advantage if another nation has the empire of the seas and gives the law in all the markets of the globe.†   (source)
  • Nicholas, having highly commended the resolution, Mr Crummles went on to impart such further intelligence relative to their mutual friends as he thought might prove interesting; informing Nicholas, among other things, that Miss Snevellicci was happily married to an affluent young wax-chandler who had supplied the theatre with candles, and that Mr Lillyvick didn't dare to say his soul was his own, such was the tyrannical sway of Mrs Lillyvick, who reigned paramount and supreme.†   (source)
  • The reposeful, easy, affluent life to which her mother's marriage had introduced her was, in truth, the beginning of a great change in Elizabeth.†   (source)
  • They were under a yoke, — I could free them: they were scattered, — I could reunite them: the independence, the affluence which was mine, might be theirs too.†   (source)
  • …that were stealing down her face, and to prepare herself for the walk, while Mrs Nickleby amused her brother-in-law by giving him, with many tears, a detailed account of the dimensions of a rosewood cabinet piano they had possessed in their days of affluence, together with a minute description of eight drawing-room chairs, with turned legs and green chintz squabs to match the curtains, which had cost two pounds fifteen shillings apiece, and had gone at the sale for a mere nothing.†   (source)
  • At the present day the more affluent classes of society are so entirely removed from the direction of political affairs in the United States that wealth, far from conferring a right to the exercise of power, is rather an obstacle than a means of attaining to it.†   (source)
  • Her disposition was naturally easy and indolent, like Lady Bertram's; and a situation of similar affluence and do-nothingness would have been much more suited to her capacity than the exertions and self-denials of the one which her imprudent marriage had placed her in.†   (source)
  • Reserve gradually gave way before the propriety and candour of their spirited young leader, and it was not long ere the affluent planter rejoiced as much as his daughter, whenever the well known signal, at the gate, announced one of these agreeable visits from the commander of the post.†   (source)
  • "Jane, I excuse you for the present: two months' grace I allow you for the full enjoyment of your new position, and for pleasing yourself with this late-found charm of relationship; but THEN, I hope you will begin to look beyond Moor House and Morton, and sisterly society, and the selfish calm and sensual comfort of civilised affluence.†   (source)
  • The least he could have done when he found himself free, and herself affluent, would have been to respond heartily and promptly to her invitation.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty mountains which dominate the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a swamp.†   (source)
  • Mr Elliot, raised by his marriage to great affluence, and disposed to every gratification of pleasure and vanity which could be commanded without involving himself, (for with all his self-indulgence he had become a prudent man), and beginning to be rich, just as his friend ought to have found himself to be poor, seemed to have had no concern at all for that friend's probable finances, but, on the contrary, had been prompting and encouraging expenses which could end only in ruin; and…†   (source)
  • My good Aunt Templeman, the banker's widow, whose very existence you used to doubt, much more her affluence, has lately died, and bequeathed some of her property to me.†   (source)
  • Anne Elliot, with all her claims of birth, beauty, and mind, to throw herself away at nineteen; involve herself at nineteen in an engagement with a young man, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no hopes of attaining affluence, but in the chances of a most uncertain profession, and no connexions to secure even his farther rise in the profession, would be, indeed, a throwing away, which she grieved to think of!†   (source)
  • If he sacrifices a large portion of his income to the State, he deprives himself for a time of the pleasures of affluence; but to the poor man death is embellished by no pomp or renown, and the imposts which are irksome to the rich are fatal to him.†   (source)
  • By accepting it, and by that step alone, I can release my father who is dying in this place; prolong his life, perhaps, for many years; restore him to comfort—I may almost call it affluence; and relieve a generous man from the burden of assisting one, by whom, I grieve to say, his noble heart is little understood.†   (source)
  • Though their caution may prove eventually unnecessary, it was kindly meant; and of this you may be assured, that every advantage of affluence will be doubled by the little privations and restrictions that may have been imposed.†   (source)
  • "You took me a fatherless, impoverished, and friendless orphan," she said, struggling to command her voice, "when others, who live in what may be called affluence compared to your state, chose to forget me; and may Heaven in its goodness bless you for it!†   (source)
  • There are virtuous and peaceful individuals whose pure morality, quiet habits, affluence, and talents fit them to be the leaders of the surrounding population; their love of their country is sincere, and they are prepared to make the greatest sacrifices to its welfare, but they confound the abuses of civilization with its benefits, and the idea of evil is inseparable in their minds from that of novelty.†   (source)
  • A few, led by the phantoms of hope, and ambitious of sudden affluence, sought the mines of the virgin territory; but by far the greater portion of the emigrants were satisfied to establish themselves along the margins of the larger water-courses, content with the rich returns that the generous, alluvial, bottoms of the rivers never fail to bestow on the most desultory industry.†   (source)
  • Now that Henchard's whole career was pictured distinctly to his neighbours, and they could see how admirably he had used his one talent of energy to create a position of affluence out of absolutely nothing—which was really all he could show when he came to the town as a journeyman hay-trusser, with his wimble and knife in his basket—they wondered and regretted his fall.†   (source)
  • The inhabitants of that unfortunate city, who but a few months ago were in ease and affluence, have now, no other alternative than to stay and starve, or turn and beg.†   (source)
  • She doubted the sincerity of this assurance no more than he had doubted it himself, and she thought of it for her daughters' sake with satisfaction, though as for herself she was persuaded that a much smaller provision than 7000L would support her in affluence.†   (source)
  • Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity, the conducing means I made use of, which with the blessing of God so well succeeded, my posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own situations, and therefore fit to be imitated.†   (source)
  • Born to the prospect of such affluence!†   (source)
  • Resolution, once become habitual, would keep me firm in my endeavors to obtain all the subsequent virtues; Frugality and Industry freeing me from my remaining debt, and producing affluence and independence, would make more easy the practice of Sincerity and Justice, etc., etc. Conceiving then, that, agreeably to the advice of Pythagoras in his Golden Verses, daily examination would be necessary, I contrived the following method for conducting that examination.†   (source)
  • To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lost every thing that could make it a blessing.†   (source)
  • While I was at the camp, supping one evening with the officers of Colonel Dunbar's regiment, he represented to me his concern for the subalterns, who, he said, were generally not in affluence, and could ill afford, in this dear country, to lay in the stores that might be necessary in so long a march, thro' a wilderness, where nothing was to be purchas'd.†   (source)
  • So, Benson is on the border of Squirrel Hill, an affluent neighborhood, and Homewood, a non-affluent neighborhood, and it draws about equal numbers of students from both.†   (source)
  • But the cream of the joke was nothing would get it out of Corley's head that he was living in affluence and hadn't a thing to do but hand out the needful.†   (source)
  • Lo soul, the retrospect brought forward, The old, most populous, wealthiest of earth's lands, The streams of the Indus and the Ganges and their many affluents, (I my shores of America walking to-day behold, resuming all,) The tale of Alexander on his warlike marches suddenly dying, On one side China and on the other side Persia and Arabia, To the south the great seas and the bay of Bengal, The flowing literatures, tremendous epics, religions, castes, Old occult Brahma interminably far…†   (source)
  • In a republic, where fortunes are not affluent, and pensions not expedient, the dismission of men from stations in which they have served their country long and usefully, on which they depend for subsistence, and from which it will be too late to resort to any other occupation for a livelihood, ought to have some better apology to humanity than is to be found in the imaginary danger of a superannuated bench.†   (source)
  • A man may have as much wisdom in the possession of an affluent fortune, as any beggar in the streets; or may enjoy a handsome wife or a hearty friend, and still remain as wise as any sour popish recluse, who buries all his social faculties, and starves his belly while he well lashes his back.†   (source)
  • In a word, brother, because he hath put it out of your power to make his circumstances as affluent as you would, will you distress them as much as you can?†   (source)
  • To which she replied, "That, did not her duty to her father forbid her to follow her own inclinations, ruin with him would be more welcome to her than the most affluent fortune with another man."†   (source)
  • And yet, can you believe it, gentlemen? in all this misery his wife has as good caudle as if she lay in the midst of the greatest affluence; I tasted it, and I scarce ever tasted better.†   (source)
  • However, we both made a shift to pick up an uncomfortable livelihood; and for two years I continued of the calling; during which time I tasted all the varieties of fortune, sometimes flourishing in affluence, and at others being obliged to struggle with almost incredible difficulties.†   (source)
  • Add to all these the many obligations which Lady Bellaston, whose violent fondness we can no longer conceal, had heaped upon him; so that by her means he was now become one of the best-dressed men about town; and was not only relieved from those ridiculous distresses we have before mentioned, but was actually raised to a state of affluence beyond what he had ever known.†   (source)
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